aspirations
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Aspirations are hopes or ambitions for achieving something, typically something significant: She had aspirations of becoming a doctor, His political aspirations were well known.
The word implies reaching upward—toward goals not yet attained.
Aspiration in the singular can also refer to the medical act of drawing fluid from the body, or in phonetics, the puff of air accompanying certain consonants.
Intended targets or ends
- targetsIntended aims or marks
- milestonesNotable points of progress
- benchmarksStandards for measuring performance
- plansIntended courses of action
roadmap · blueprint · strategy · timeline · outcomes · pursuits · missions · agenda
Operate a vehicle
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- motivationImpetus toward a goal
- strivingEarnest sustained endeavor
- tenacityPersistent grip or resolve
perseverance · persistence · climbing · advancement · career · success · achievement · accomplishment
What something signifies
- callingStrongly felt purpose
- vocationDedicated career path
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- missionPurpose-driven task
fulfillment · legacy · contribution · impact · significance · direction · self-actualization · higher
Intense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- optimismTendency to expect good
- faithTrust without proof
- wishesThings hoped for
desire · expectations · anticipation · belief · trust · confidence · enthusiasm · promising
Imagined or prophetic sights
- fantasiesImagined scenarios, often pleasurable
- daydreamsIdle waking thoughts
- reveriesIdle waking fantasies
- idealsStandards of perfection
imaginings · castles · wishful · someday · big-picture · lofty · starry-eyed · moonshot
objectives
Intended targets or ends
- targetsIntended aims or marks
- milestonesNotable points of progress
- benchmarksStandards for measuring performance
plans · roadmap · blueprint · strategy · timeline · outcomes · pursuits · missions · agenda · checklist
drive
Operate a vehicle
- determinationFirmness of purpose
- motivationImpetus toward a goal
- strivingEarnest sustained endeavor
tenacity · perseverance · persistence · climbing · advancement · career · success · achievement · accomplishment · zeal
meaning
What something signifies
mission · fulfillment · legacy · contribution · impact · significance · direction · self-actualization · higher · greater
yearning
Intense prolonged craving
wishes · desire · expectations · anticipation · belief · trust · confidence · enthusiasm · promising · bright
visions
Imagined or prophetic sights
- fantasiesImagined scenarios, often pleasurable
- daydreamsIdle waking thoughts
- reveriesIdle waking fantasies
ideals · imaginings · castles · wishful · someday · big-picture · lofty · starry-eyed · moonshot · utopian
- biographybirth, death date, autobiography, life story, biography
- identityidentity, personal identity, self, selfhood, self-expression
- ambitionambition, goal, strive, goals, initiative
- aspirationsdream, goals, dreams, purpose, mission
- career successambition, drive, goals, promotions, raises
- goalsgoals, goal, aims, objective, objectives
aspirationscontentment
Peaceful satisfaction with circumstances
complacency · apathy · satisfaction · resignation · indifference
aspirationsregrets
Sorrows over past actions
nostalgia · reminiscences · backward-looking · retrospection · memories
aspirationsdespair
Total absence of hope
hopelessness · defeatism · cynicism · disillusionment · pessimism
- career aspirationsDesired professional trajectory
- hidden aspirationsUndisclosed personal goals
- aspiration pneumoniaLung infection from aspirated material